Seismic activity La Palma Island

[Osciiboscii]

In cement truck terms that's a total of 13,263,387 large 8 cubic metre cement lorries
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Mind boggling...

[dawg]

Some good scenes from the above live feed tonight. Lava flowing very quickly.

Stats are interesting at the bottom of the screen - 66 cubic metres a second. 106107100 cubic metres of lava since the eruption began.

In cement truck terms that's a total of 13,263,387 large 8 cubic metre cement lorries

just thinking...if that lava could be piped to a conveyor belt of giant cinder block moulds a vast number of very large blocks could be produced for just about nothing every day

[Osciiboscii]

Pipe it to Ireland, we could use it as filling for all the roads promised in the new National Development plan

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Good thinking . It's very light and porous, I brought home a piece from the Idaho lava field.

[Del.Monte]

I have half of Tenerife lying about the house - a legacy from my ex - having never been there myself. Give me the peace and quiet of the Great Saltee or Cape Clear any day, and you're unlikely to be disturbed by volcanic activity in either place.

[quodec]

Its inexorable!

[Del.Monte]

Amazing footage - thanks for posting.

[dawg]

From a few days ago

[CelticRambler]

Here's something you don't see every day - giant chunks of rock, floating down the river!



Obviously makes quite a difference if the river is one of lava rather than water. The collapse of (part of) the north wall the other day was also an impressive spectacle.

As someone who's always had an interest in geology, from my earliest memories, I find it quite fascinating to watch a relatively near-by landscape being made and re-made in real time.

[dawg]

The scale of this carry on has always astonished me

An example, a few miles across the water on the north west coast of Tenerife there is an old road down to the sea ( San Marcos ) hacked into the lava. A few snaps of the up-side

https://gubu.ie/download/file.php?id=589
https://gubu.ie/download/file.php?id=590
https://gubu.ie/download/file.php?id=591

[quodec]

Two big vent extrusions tonight. Very loud!!

[dawg]

www . pprune.org/rumours-news/642893-la-palma-spc-gcla-closed-volcanic-ash.html#post11125833

( remove the spaces 'ww . ' pp)

Anyone know where the 'Satellite imagery showing the plume over Rome via northern Morocco and Tunisia' might be found ?

[dawg]

Planes will need to be flexible on routing around the islands in future !

https://avherald.com/h?article=4ee9dfe1&opt=0

[quodec]

Latest live feed:

[quodec]

Firing on all cylinders tonight. Anyone any idea how long this kind of low level volcanic activity can/will last?

[CelticRambler]

Firing on all cylinders tonight. Anyone any idea how long this kind of low level volcanic activity can/will last?

See post #57!

Mid-November would be "typical" although there's a reasonable chance it could be well into December before things calm down to a state of background noise.

[TheValeyard]

Pretty awesome to watch though.

[CelticRambler]

Have been off-line-ish for the weekend and a bit before, and am surprised that no-one posted about the "lava tsunami"

It most definitely wasn't a tsunami (do these YouTubers know nothing? ) but it was quite amazing to watch. When I saw the first videos, I wasn't entirely sure it was real (or that it hadn't been sped up) but have since seen what I presume is validated footage and it's .

[CelticRambler]

Here's a nice bit of drone footage, showing the four vents:


Google-translated description (apologies for the American spellings ):

In the drone shots, the 4 current emission centers are observed. Distributed and described from the Northwest to the Southeast.

The most Northwest, is at the lowest level and is the only one that emits lava flow.
The next is an emission center located at a higher level with intermittent strombolian activity
The third, at a higher altitude, which is the main lava source, has continuous strombolian activity.
The fourth and last to appear (located to the Southeast), it appeared three days ago with phreatomagmatic activity, it turned off on the 17th and has reappeared with strombolian activity on October 18.

[dawg]

'Where Cumbre Viejo sweeps down to the sea' ( to the tune of The Mountains of Mourne )



( Pic pinched from a post over on pprune )

[quodec]

Wow, ‘waterfalls’ of lava!!!

[dawg]

( another pic pinched from pprune )

[quodec]

Six days since the last post here - and still no end in sight! Obviously plenty still left in the reservoir!

[quodec]

This guy, Valentin Troll, uploads regular updates on the lava flow situation in La Palma. This is from yesterday. Fascinating and scary all at once!

[Del.Monte]

Wild stuff, the old cavity block wall didn't put up much resistance - must have had mica in it.

[Scotty]

I've often stood on a rocky shoreline in the west of Ireland and been in awe at the might of the ocean but I'd say to experience this first hand is incredible! To see the island be reshaped and redefined right in front of your eyes.